© by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973)
Stop all the clocks, cut off the...
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone ...
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- by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973), no title, appears in The Ascent of F6, first published 1936, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Funeral Blues", 1937-9, published 1980, from Cabaret Songs, no. 2. [text verified 1 time]
- by Wayne L. Davies (b. 1975), "Stop all the clocks" [text verified 1 time]
- by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "Stop all the clocks" [voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by Betty Roe (b. 1930), "Stop all the clocks", published 1980. [mezzo-soprano and piano] [text not verified]
- by Ned Rorem (b. 1923), "Stop all the clocks", published 1965 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from Poems of Love and the Rain, no. 2. [text not verified]
- by Ned Rorem (b. 1923), "Stop all the clocks", published 1965 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from Poems of Love and the Rain, no. 16. [text not verified]
- by T. Wallace Southam , "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone", published 1966 [voice and piano], from Poetry Set in Jazz [text not verified]
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